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Skunk cabbage Lysichiton americanus
A perennial fleshy herb from upright underground stems with a skunk-like odor which grows in marshes, swamps, streambanks, and forested wetlands. This plant grows from Alaska to California (including British Columbia) and east to northern Idaho and western Montana. (WA Native Plant Society)
Today's top story in Salish
Current: Cross-border camaraderie: residents gather in unity against Trump rhetoric / Borderlands in the time of tariffs
Trump admin aims to gut salmon recovery spending
The Trump White House wants to eliminate several programs that benefit
Pacific salmon, the iconic but widely threatened species of the Pacific
Northwest. An internal document from the Office of Management and Budget
calls for eliminating NOAA’s Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, as
well as national grant programs for species recovery,
interjurisdictional fisheries, and habitat conservation and restoration.
John Ryan reports. (KUOW)
Trump’s NOAA firings raise doubts for PNW fisheries
The scientists who shared their stories inform and set salmon fisheries
quotas and identify priority salmon habitat recovery work. They were
hired to forecast climate impacts, like low-oxygen conditions and marine
heat, on fisheries and provide data to reduce the risk of whale
entanglements, among other things. Isabella Breda reports. (Seattle Times)
Protecting B.C. old-growth forests could yield $10.9B in benefits, report finds
That number could quadruple to $43.1 billion over the next century if
100% of old growth trees were protected in the Okanagan and Prince
George timber supply areas. Stefan Labbé reports. (Times Colonist)
Inside the fight to save California’s dying sea lions from toxic algae: ‘We’re like 911 operators’
An animal’s chance of survival after domoic acid poisoning is 50-50, and
this year an outbreak has sickened hundreds. Amanda Ulrich reports. (The Guardian)
Blueberry bust: Hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars blueberry biz in
the Northwest and Canada act as one, tariffs could complicate the
relationship
About 40 million pounds of Washington’s blueberries are shipped to
Canada for packing or processing each year.. If tariffs are imposed on
Canadian blueberries and in return, U.S. berries, that could mean
blueberry distributors might halt fruit shipments across the border –
because the product would be too expensive for people to buy. That could
lead to rotting berry islands in places like Whatcom County,
Washington, where farmers may not be able to get their fruit to
processing or cold storage. Anna King reports. (NW Public Broadcasting)
A look back at the devastating magnitude 6.7 earthquake that struck Washington in 1949
On April 13, 1949, a massive 6.7 magnitude earthquake rattled western
Washington. The ground shook for 30 seconds and was felt over a
230,000-square-mile area, with the epicenter near the Joint Base
Lewis–McChord area. The quake was devastating. Eight people were killed,
and numerous others were injured. (KOMO)
Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge
of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
John Ismay reports. (NY Times)
The First 100 Days
- RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US tribes. A key program to do that was gutted (Associated Press)
- Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead (Washington Post)
- DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions (Washington Post)
- Judge relaxes ban on DOGE access to sensitive US Treasury information (Associated Press)
- Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? (NY Times)
- Trump administration says it will exclude some electronics from reciprocal tariffs (Associated Press)
- DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress (NY Times)
- Trump’s order seeks to force states to buy costly new voting machines (Washington Post)
- Trump says CBS and '60 Minutes' should 'pay a big price' for going after him (Associated Press)
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